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LISTENING - SERIES #6

Question Type : Gap-Filling

Exercise 1. Listen to a recording and fill in the blanks with NO MORE THAN
FOUR WORDS.
Audio Link : 99-year-old trucking company Yellow shuts down, putting 30,000 o…
The closure of one of the biggest (1) _______________ in the U.S. may affect
your (2) _______________.
Yellow company has already (3) _______________ and they are anticipated to
(4) _______________
They do a (5) _______________ for some famous intermediaries like Walmart,
Home Depot.
A 700 million dollar (6) _______________ was provided by the Government 3
years ago. Because of this, they are likely to be the largest (7) _______________
in the U.S. history.
Yellow Corp has (8) _______________ with the union for its (9)
_______________.
The CEO states that they are now (10) _______________ of 30.000 employees.
They will try every possible way to save American jobs.
The IBT has released a statement indicating in part that Yellow Corp has (11)
_______________ that it could not (12) _______________ despite billions of
dollars in (13) _______________ and hundreds of dollars in (14)
_______________ from the federal government.

Exercise 2. Listen to a recording and fill in the blanks with NO MORE THAN
THREE WORDS.
Audio Link : Australia's first 'wellbeing budget' shows mixed results | ABC News
Australia's first 'wellbeing budget' shows mixed results | ABC News
A (1) ___________ gives insight into the country's economic and social strengths.
This indicator was eagerly designated to (2) __________ what the speaker
expects for the economy and society.
Malicious contents have been encountered by (3) __________ online population
worldwide.
While more (4) _________ are reported, the Aussies on average saw extended life
expectancy.
It is also indicated that (5) __________ were virtually unchanged. At the same
time, this is a defect faced by (6) __________
The pre-pandemic data shows that less (7) __________ are spent by people.
The speaker said that they have purpose to identify gaps in data on whether it is
old-fashioned or not (8) ___________
Compared to conventional economic accounting, life quality statistics are always
more (9) ___________

Exercise 3. Listen to a recording and fill in the blanks with NO MORE THAN
FOUR WORDS.
Audio Link : Reforms to the future of higher education in Australia announced |…
One paramount issue for the Australian labor party is enhancing (1)
__________________
Claire is subjected to (2) __________________ on the tertiary educational
institutions
After Covid-19, students have (3) __________________ to the university system
that is both receiving (4) __________________ in terms of teaching quality and
quantity and confronting (5) __________________ for research.
An (6) __________________ of the whole education system has been
implemented by the minister to tackle this problem.
Today, he adopted the (7) __________________ of the review of the higher
education sector from a panel headed by an expert from the Australian University.
One striking figure was reported is the decline in the number of students completing
schools, which is most remarkable in (8) __________________ households and
among children from (9) __________________.
Some significant contents appearing in the reports are considered a few (10)
__________________ by the minister.
The report flags are universal (11) __________________ and need-based
funding for (12) __________________.
Students with (13) __________________ are supplied with funding to offer
additional support.
Nursing students are required to do at the hospital at the expense of part-time jobs
to (14) __________________
The issues around how students fund themselves are likely to (15)
__________________
The government has not demonstrated a (16) __________________ to whole
universities to justify for low schooling completion levels.

Exercise 4. Listen to a recording and fill in the blanks with NO MORE THAN
THREE WORDS.
Audio Link : The Philippines Education Problem, Explained
The Philippines educational system is notorious for its (1) __________________,
problems of affordability and a lack of (2) __________________ and simulated
teaching team. Most remarkably, is the issue of brain drain.
All issues combined have put Phillipines' education institutions (3)
__________________
To closely consider the issue, the country's educational system is examined on (4)
__________________
The example of 3 million students registering in universities every year has proved
the government's success in (5) __________________.
The picture unveils when we actually (6) __________________ the statistics.
The disparity between students' enrollment and completion is maybe attributed to
(7) __________________, insufficient facilities to learn or just a lack of (8)
__________________ for them to focus on the journey.
Only 22% of students between chosen grades have achieved (9)
__________________
It still opens to question on whether the government will choose to (10)
__________________ or not.
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